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    "ocrText": "May 10, 1927\nMise Harriette S Douglas\n4 Rue de Chevreuse\nParis, France\nMy dear Miss Douglas\nYour letter of April 24th contained a great deal\nof interesting information. I can well understand your periods of\ndiscouragement, especially when you are solfar reagved from your\nparticular friends and the source of stimulation in the way of con-\ntact with members of your own profession.\nYes, I know Mrs Reid, she W5.8 on the Board at\nBellevue. She wee also very conspicuous in Red Cross work in connect-\nion with the London Chapter, and also with the Paris Committee. While\nshe has done a great deal for the Red Cross and has been one of our\nmost loyal supporters, she is a most difficult person to work with.\nShe was very critical of the Nursing Service during the war and under-\ntook to run things on her own account and in her own way in Paris from\nLondon. For example - she insisted upon supplying the nurses with\naprons which were not regulation. You will not be likely to ever\nreceive any credit, praise or commendation from her, or even of\nencouragement. She does not know how to give it, and while ehe is\ngenerous in many ways, having always been very rich herself and more\nor less petted and spoiled she expects adoration from everyone and\ngives little herself. This, of course, is for your own information\nand not as you know for circulation.\nI am looking forward to being in Paris early in\nAugust. Isshall pass thru there, probably, enroute to Geneva about the\n24th of July. When I return to Paris + hope very much that I will be\nable to stop at the Club. I am a guest member of the Washington\nUniversity Club, and take it for granted that I would be given the\nsame privilege in Peris.\nThank you 60 much for interesting yourself in\nsecuring names of Red Cross nurses who might be-in Paris. I have\nheard from Miss Ellison and have written to her, and also to Miss\nKaltenbach. After hearing from you about Miss Francis I received\nword from her, from Constantinople, to say that she had gone down there."
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